Contents

• What is milk ?
• Installing milk
• Adding plugins
• Contributing

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What is milk ?

milk provides a framework and tools for image processing and analysis. milk is geared towards high-performance computing and modularity, and is especially well-suited for building up execution pipelines out of small modular units. The framework allows for custom functions to be easily integrated within milk’s command line interface.

milk’s key features include :

• A command line interface (CLI) for easy access to functions and arguments
• Runtime loading of modules to extend capabilities
• Interprocess communication (IPC) for sharing process status, function parameters, and images.

milk’s core design and capabilities are built around three data structures :

• Shared memory images (streams)
• Function Parameter Structures (FPS)
• Process info and status (procinfo)

Installing milk

./compile.sh $PWD/local

Adding plugins

Compile with cacao plugins:

./fetch_cacao_dev.sh
./compile.sh $PWD/local

Compile with coffee plugins:

./fetch_coffee_dev.sh
./compile.sh $PWD/local

Contributing

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